On the morning of 2 May 2024, the Republic of the Marshall Islands-registered gas carrier YENISEI RIVER was berthing starboard side to alongside Jetty No. 1 of the LNG terminal at the port of Pyeongtaek, Republic of Korea.
To protect the mooring ropes from surface abrasion with steel surfaces of the fairlead rollers, chafe protection sleeves were wrapped around the mooring lines. The sleeves were installed around the mooring lines before lowering the lines from the ship to the mooring boat.
The fore springs were the first lines that were sent ashore, followed by the aft springs. The running ends of the mooring lines were paid out through the universal roller fairleads and then passed to mooring boats, which brought the lines to the jetty where they were secured around mooring hooks. When the aft springs were sent out, an unusual sound was heard from the winch. At 0948,1 all the springs were secured on the mooring hooks.
The ASD1 took the initiative to adjust the chafing sleeves on one of the fore springs and positioned himself adjacent to the fairlead roller before the ship was moved forward. When the ship started to move forward, he got caught between the roller of the fairlead and the mooring line and got pulled through the fairlead into the water.
The mooring boats which were assisting the ship immediately approached the ASD1 in the water, recovered him, and brought him ashore, whereafter he was transferred to the hospital by ambulance. Upon arrival in the hospital at 1058, the ASD1 was declared deceased.